NOW IT'S TIME TO PASS THE TORCH: Ronnie James Dio, the aged rock star who replaced Ozzy Osbourne in Black Sabbath and hasn't had a hit since I was in pre-school, lost his thumb in a gardening accident recently, but in a Bobbitt-like feat of medical ingenuity, the digit was later successfully re-attached.
Tenacious D recorded a tribute to Dio, called "Dio" (not to be confused with their tribute to The Greatest Song in the World, "Tribute"), and when I saw them in Boston a couple years ago Jack Black introduced the song by stating that Dio "rocked so hard that Black Sabbath fired Ozzy, 'cause he didn't rock as hard as Ronnie James Dio." No, he didn't, and that's really really not what happened.